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Ukrainian woman dies during 'lovemaking on railway tracks'

By AFP

Posted:
09/29/2013 05:00:00 AM MDT

A man crosses over a set of train tracks December 4, 2004 in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian couple's inability to rein in their passion for each other ended in tragedy when a woman was killed by a locomotive and her partner had his legs torn off during pre-dawn love-making on a railway track, police said Sunday.

The accident took place in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia early Saturday.

"Returning from our friends', my girlfriend and I could not overcome our passionate nature and wanted to feel a sense of thrill near a railway track," a police statement quoted the 41-year-old man as saying.

A police spokesman separately told AFP Sunday that the pair was believed to have been drunk.

The woman died on the spot while the man was hospitalized with his legs torn off below the knee.

Police did not release the names of the victims, saying it had opened a criminal probe over the safety violation.